HEALTHY LIVING

Fitness tips for Travelers

If you've worked hard to establish a good fitness routine, going on a business trip doesn't have to mean your healthy habits will be derailed.

Photo Dynamic Therapy or Blue-Light therapy

Photodynamic Therapy (PDT) is the combination of light and light sensitive agents (such as porphyrins) in an oxygen-rich environment. The treatment uses a drug, called a photosensitizer or photosensitizing agent, and a particular type of light.

Top 10 Yoga asana for Managing Muscle cramps

Cramps can occur during exercise, immediately after, or as long as six hours later. Yet common as they are and terrible as they can be, no one really understands cramps. They are a medical mystery.
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Salty diets damaging Australian men's sex lives

A group of researchers have warned that salty diets amongst Australian men are damaging their sex lives. The result of the study was presented at the University of Sydney's George Institute for Global Health as part of World Salt Awareness Week.

Earth doomed, to be effaced by over population

The face of the Earth would be undistinguishable in the year 2050 as the population boom of no less than 10 billion will leave people battling for scarce resources all over the world, researchers at a US science conference have warned.

Sports juice: sour cherries could speed muscle recovery

Sour cherries could help athletes reduce muscle damage to recover faster from a tough workout, according to new research published in the American College of Sports Medicine's journal Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise.Researchers at the Sports and Exercise Science Research Center at London South Bank University, in the UK, gave 10 trained athletes 1 ounce of a proprietary cherry juice concentrate, CherryActive (made from sour Montmorency cherries) twice daily for seven days prior to and...

Use of cannabis linked to psychosis

Scientists from the University of New South Wales has provided the first conclusive evidence that cannabis use significantly hastens the onset of psychotic illnesses during the critical years of brain development - with possible life-long consequences.

World’s oldest person finds home in Georgia

Besse Cooper from Walton County is recorded, Monday, January 31 as the world’s oldest person alive at 114 years and 158 days old. She is now staying at the Park Place Nursing Facility in Monroe.

Australia unveils hard-hitting National Tobacco Campaign

Australia's health department on Monday unveils its most hard-hitting campaign against tobacco use with a new advertising campaign graphically links smoking with lung cancer hit the airwaves and TV screens as the Gillard Government continues its world-leading action to combat tobacco use.

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